My friend and editor told me that, as a columnist, one cannot afford not to have a Facebook account, for priceless access to what’s going on around town, not to mention what’s going on with friends, near or far, themselves a huge help for the sort of things I write about—senior things

It’s not a total stretch to declare 2016 the embodiment of Lemony Snicket’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events”—a mutated, toxic, Obscurus-ish, Death Star-esque version that exists in Dormammu’s Dark Dimension.